A Two-Way Street

​You can also be a listener to others. When you realize how much you were helped by having a good listener listen to you, you may want to give the gift of listening to others.
 
Being a listener will also be healing for you when you realize that you are not the only one experiencing trauma. It will give you an understanding of God at work despite the trauma. As you compare your experience with another person’s experience, you may find things you can be thankful for. Being a listener is another way in which you can “keep your heart so that springs of life can flow again”. (Proverbs 4:23)
 
The Bible describes this two-way street.  
Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes! He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4. 

As we are comforted, we become a source of healing to others. Talking and listening is the two-way street on which healing flows.